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Friable vs Milkshake - What's the difference?

friable | milkshake |

As an adjective friable

is easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.

As a noun milkshake is

a thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.

friable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
  • * 1977 , (Angela Carter), The Passion of New Eve :
  • Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
  • * 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1020:
  • This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
  • (of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
  • (of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
  • April 1987 , Old-House Journal
    It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.

    Synonyms

    * (easily broken into small fragments) crumbly

    Derived terms

    * friableness * friably * friability

    See also

    * brittle

    References

    * * ----

    milkshake

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
  • (New England, Australia, New Zealand) A thin beverage, similar to the above, but without ice cream or significantly less of it.
  • A beverage consisting of fruit juice, water, and some milk, as served in Southeast Asia.
  • (slang) Female sex appeal or promiscuity.
  • * 2003 , ,
  • My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

    Synonyms

    * (New England) frappe (thick beverage) * thickshake (thick beverage)

    See also

    * frappe * malt * malted milk ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

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